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" Quotes and Sayings About words

Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true.
Jesus Speak True
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In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us

Word Eternal Final sense Life
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

Metaphors Other Perhaps Things
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

More Poets Sound Than
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Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Awareness Create Food Light
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Words have a lot of power.

Lot Power Words Powereful
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The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

The Fewer The Words
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Capacity Ideas Images Love
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Forces Imagination Nature Words
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from

Found Greatest Problem Yourself
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Seed Magic Adversity Benefit
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and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forgot the words . . .

Sin Love Sound People
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I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

Music Easiest Express Talent
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Always keep your words and your words will become like money to those you make promises to. If people know you always do what you say, then your words will have serious purchasing power

Always keep Word Money Promise
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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Visible Words Pages Blank
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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Involves Irrational Mysteries Perceived
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I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

Conversation Cry Easily Movie
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Silence Also Done Lying
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Actions Correspond Few Many
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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Ought Dictate Words Honor
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

Woman I'm Very Words
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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Words Capable Known Faith
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Bound Disregard Fair Fair Play
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Aims Between Clear Enemy
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For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.

America Credible Diplomacy Doubt
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

His Know Listen Man
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Another Because Before Either
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The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.

Actual Agreement Attempts Deserves
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I type 40 words per minute on a normal computer with my left foot. And with two cups of coffee, I can do 53 words per minute.

Coffee Computer Cups Foot
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People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

People Words Battle Destiny
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We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
Words Sentimental Few Millions
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Language Principles Generation Interpretation
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

Young Drink Health.slow Mind
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I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
Things Good Making Words
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When I've had enough of words, I go out into the city for a long walk; sometimes I'll go out walking for several miles. And I'll just take photographs and hope for something striking or unusual to happen that I can organize into a picture frame.

City Enough Frame Go
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For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

About Apt Attempt Else
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Words Great Hide Thoughts
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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Character Disposition Mind Seen
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Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!

People Proof Committed Words
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Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

Flesh Much Soul Style
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Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes - in other words, essential!

Bread Dressed Hats Shoes
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Desires Difficulty Govern Men
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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file.

Morning Begins With Trying
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A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Any Attention Before Church
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We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
Wise Learn Words Wisecracks
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Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing - not only by our words - that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

Alone Before Believing Convinced
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Words Solitude Needs Friendship
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Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

Give Heart Just Keep
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If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Better Blogs Read Words
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I'm a reporter - if I don't interview someone, I don't have much to say, and I definitely can't just sit down and knock out 800 words on any subject you give me.

Any Definitely Down Give
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